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THURSDAY KVINUrOi • o'clock. i:rv tsixj] hoilajpo: IUltimohk, Hoy. U—General Junes Bank* brad, United States Army, died here today. Uttkb or It. R. Cuylkb, Eeq.—In our col. umne today will lie found the letter of Mr. Cuyler In reply to the " Up Country Cracker." The teuoe Involved In this controversy, being of uu interesting nature to a large proportion of the population of our State, and particularly to the people of this Immediate section, we have made room for the letter, to the ezalnsion of editorial and other matter of general Interest. ar We call the'attentlon of our merchants uod others to the fact that the Telegraph Office has been removed Bom the comer of Drayton and Bay streets to the comer of Barnard and Bay streets, over the store of Messrs. Webeter A Paloies. The entrance to the office Is Bom Bay street. Ahrkst op a OooNTBBPKtTsn.—Sheriff Prcndergaat, Comity Constable A. E. Jones,and t’oltcemau McGc, arrested In this city last evening Simon I’. O’Neill, charged with the otlenco of utterinr a 110 bill of the Merchants’ & Planters' Banh. It appears that O'Neill, on the 7th Inst, called at tho store of Mr. W. D, Bashlor and purchased a bottle or whisky, pay. Ing Mr. Bashlor with a counterfeit 510 bank bill of thejIMerohants’ and Planters' Bank. A warrant to arrest was Issued by Justice Retford and executed as above. O'Neill was committed to Jail In default of ball. Quids Pisaeos.—The sohr. Fannie, Captain Beaston, with an assorted oargo, consigned to Charles A. Greiner, Esq,, arrived at this port this morning, In sixty-seven hours Bom Phila delphia. - Key Weit Correspondence. Kit Wist, Not. 10,1856. Messrs, Editor* Georgian f Journal: The U. 9. revenue cutter Sea Drift, Lt. Ban* dolph, while on a cruise among the Windward Keys a few days since, fell in with the head board of a vessel called the Lochiel. There was also scattered along the shore of Elliott Key a large quantity of the debris of wrecks, among which was found the wing of a gilded eagle, about two feet in length. The schr. William A John, per Savannah,was at Port Dallas discharging government stores on the 31st. On the 1st the steamship Suwanee, Captain Kilridgc, arrived at Miami, with Ool. Dimmick and two companies of U. 8. artillery for the garrison of Fort Dallas. Col. Dimmlck’s com* mand relieved Gapts. Hill and Dawson’s com* patties. The latter embarked on board the Suwanee and reached this city the 5th, en route for Port Brown, Texas. They left this place the 6th for Brazos St. Iago, Texas. Major General Harney, in command of the U.S. troops now assembling in Florida, ar rived in the Isabel the evening of the 6th. It is rumored that be will make Key West his headquarters. Major McKivity, Quarter Mastei, is in the city, and will form a depot near the naval wharf. Operations against the Seminolei will commence in a few days. There has been but one vessel wrecked upon this coast the past fortnight. The barkOotavia, Mitchell, from Matanzas, bound to Boston with a cargo of segars and sugar, ran upon French Reef near Oareyfort Light the night of the 2d, and soon after bilged. The wreckers will save 150 boxes mer chandize, a few cases of segars, and some dam aged sugar. The vessel and a large part of the cargo will prove a total loss. The captain has consigned to P, J.Fontem, Esq. No property has been saved from the ship Isaac Alberton. There is a large amount yet In the loworhold. There are twelve marble cap* Hals for tho New Orleans Custom House—said to be worth 190,000—yet in the ship; besides a large quantityofgliqnor, oil, &c. The bark Qeo. Thomas, Ireland, arrived from New York on the 5th Inst. The brig Gov. Anderson, Simpkins, sailed for Now Orleans on the 27th. Schr. Justice, Sanders, arrived from Newport on the 28th, and sailed for St. Marks on the 31st. Brig Herald, Keene, arrived from New Bed ford on the 30th, and sailed on the 8th for St. Marks. ^ Brig Mary Hamilton, Baker, arrived from Pensacola on the 1st, and sailed for same port on the 8th. A ship (name not reported) passed the city on the 1st, with five companies of United States Infantry on board, bound from Georgetown, D. C., to Charlotte Harbor. Election—Monroe County—Democratic 222 Know Nothing 54. Later from California and Nicaragua— Arrival of tho Steamship Texas. Key West, Nov. 10th, 1856. The steamship Texas, Captain Forbes, from San Juan,arrived this afternoon, with 402 pas< seugers and $127,000 In specie. The passen gers left San Francisco on the 20th of October. The news from California is unimportant. It was thought the State would go for Buchanan. Everything was quiet on the Isthmus. The effect of the late battles was to enhance the prospects of Walker’s full success. A bat tle was expected to bo fought soon after the Texas left. It was to bo fought at Maasaya. UoL Wheeler, tho United States Mlntoter, is on board the Texas. Ho returns to the United States ou account of ill health. Don Feruini Ferrer has been appointed Min< Utcr from Nicaragua to Washington. He Is a passenger in the Texas. There is a ship ashore at Tortugas. She went upon Bird Key Shoal the night or the 8th. The schooner Harrison Jones, Capt. Tucker, arrived to-day from New York; also, transport schooner Col. Washington, from Fort Myers. Major Harnoy leaves to-morrow on the reve nue cutter Sea Drift, for Charlotte Harbor. The Bteamer Jasper fa ashore at Fort Myers. Marriage and Suioidi.—The Union (N. Y.) Democrat, of tho 24th nit., says: “ Mr. Geori Garrott, of Paris Hill, On eida county, N. 1 who has been living for the year past in Chi cago, Illinois, came on, pursuant to eng meut, to ClaryviUe, Sullivan county, on the 14th of October, and was there married-to Miss Bt. John, adopted daughter of Ool.O. E. Bush- nell, on the 16th. On the morning of the 17th he Btepped out of the house without attracting any particular notico, or saying anything to ex cite suspicion, or intimating an intention to leave, but did not return. Search was mado for him, and towards evening bis body was found about one mile from ClaryviUe. In the woods. He hod hung himself with his band< derchiof. Tearidli Tornado—Thi Villaoi De stroyed.—We learn irom the Peoria (III.) Transcript that on Friday afternoofr, the 24th ult., a most destructive tornado passed over the oortqeru part of Schuyler county, III.^nd inita course completely prostrated the flourishing village of Littleton. The place contained over a huudred houses, besides barns and oat-houses, sll of which were destroyed, or so much dam aged as to be useless. Among other buildings were two churches, one a wood and the other a brick ediflee. Some idea of the force of tho gale may be obtained from the, fact that of the walls of the brick church uo part was left standing which exceeded four fret in height. Strange ualtmay seem, but four persona were seriously Injured, and no one Killed. TUe mau who was most seriously hurt was In a fair way to recover when last heard from. Savannah* No?. 1,1858. To the Editors of the Georgian fy Journal: I thank yon for the offer of a place in your column* to reply to what purports to be a re view of my letter to the people of Outhbert, by an Upcountty Cracker." l em unwilling to pass without notice the statement of any writer Impugning my motives and falsifying my views. My reviewer shall har* an answer, without auyof the hostility wh ioh marks his communication. He is in the,, dark, whilst I am In the light. If I answer him to the satisfaction of every intelligent and un* prejudiced man in the country, he can continue in concealment; If I fail to answer him, he may shew himself, with tho laurel on his brow. In June lost, the Directors of the Southwes tern Railroad Company learned that an offer bad been made hy the Brunswick A Florida Railroad Company to the peeple of Georgia and Alabama, in the ?Iclnlty of Raudolph county, to construct a road from Eufoula to Albany, with a view to its extension thence to the oily of Brunswlok, If the«people would sub* scribe half a million of dollars; and, fbrther, that the same people had been Invited byibe 8., A. AG. Railroad Company to subscribe to* wards building a road from tho Chattahooohee river, through Albany, to the Savannah Com pany’s road at.ormeaf .the Alaiamaha. At this period, although much bad been said and pub lished concerning the Main Trunk Road, there appeared no subscription to that work, save $200,000 tendered hy the corporation of Savan nah, and It was uncertain whether the great wad would be built, or if started, where the line of It would run. The charter gives author ity to carry the Una to any point on the Chat tahoochee between the junettou of that river with the Flint and Fort Gaines. The voice of ajarge majority of the people interested seemed to be in favor of the ThomasvUle and Bain- bridge route. The Southwestern Company had been long at work under a charter which au thorised it to carry its road to some point inter mediate the Flint and Chattahooohee, and theno* on the one hand to Albany, and on the other to Fort Gaines; and also to build a branch to Eufaula. The Georgia and Florida Railroad Company had begun to build a road from Americas (the terminus, for the^ time, of the Southwestern Railroad,) to Albany, and the Southwestern Company waa on the eve of negotiating with that Company for the pur. ohase of its road and rights to Albany. The people of Savannah owned two*thlrds of the Southwestern Road. It was clearly the interest of Savannah that the Southwestern Company, soon to be proprietors of the line from Ameri cas to Albany, should take steps for the exten* sion of their road from Americas towards Cuth* bert, Fort Gaines and Eufaula. It was seen that If such steps should betaken, there would,in all probability, be no further effort to get a road from Eufaula to Albany, to Savannah or to Brunswick. The Southwestern Compkny de termined to extend Its road towards Outhbert. The people of Outhbert and the neighbor, hood met on the 4th day of July last, to consid er the matter of their railroad' connections. Unable to attend the meeting, I addressed it a letter, which I took occasion, before seudlng It, to read to tbo Directors of the Booth western company. . The Directors, on due examination, gave the letter their apprpyo), audjt was de livered hy one of them in person at the public meeting. Near five months have passed since that letter was published. Its statements have not been disputed,nor have the motives of its an. thor been impugned, until now, when an anony mous writer undertakes^ he says,"to strip this document of ttagaudy trappings,to cast them to the right and left, aud expose its rottenness to the public view.” We shall see, let me tell this “up-country cracker,” whose "comb is cut” in thia encounter, so rudely provoked by him self. The first assault which the reviewer makes is upon my motives in dispatching that letter, which ho politely calls an “edict.” He says it is “an evident fling at the Savannah A Gulf Railroad.” The utter folly of such an assertion is easily showu. The President and Directors of that railroad, u month after the publication of my letter, issued an address “te the citizens of Savannah aud Southern and Southwestern Georgia." In that address is the following paragraph: “It waa papablo from the rei7 first, that a di rect communication with the Atlantic was the proper outlet for your section of oouutry, and various projects were, from time to time,placed before the public, having for their object the conuectien of your section with various polite upon the Atlantic—Brunswick, larien, Savan nah. One scheme wan so far carried out as that a long line of road between Albany and the Ocmulgee was actually graded. But the same -difficulty opposed Itself to ail these schemes alike. U was that alluded toby Mr. B. R. Cuyler in his late admirable letter to the railroad meeting atCuthbert-the wide extent of barren and unpeopled territory which bad to be tossed over, before any road taking its departure .Torn the Atlantic coast could reach the cotton producing portions of your section. Private en terprise was quite ready to grapple with those portions of such a road as were likely to repay its labor ; but whence woe the money to ome which wat to bridge that desert, that hundred miles of eand, whieh could neither now nor at any future time be made remunerative ? All the schemes either halted at that point, or were paralyzed by the hopelessness of raising the money necessary for the undertaking. The Ocmulgee and Flint River Road made the at tempt and failed. The Brunswick and Florida Road in its projection likewise failed, its char ter dating back as far as the year 1835. The Savannah and Albany Road looked, in ita in- cipiency, to English capital for the overcoming or this natural obstacle. When the recent war in Europe diverted English capital into ether channels, and made help from that quarter hopeless, it turned its looks away in despair from your remoter sections,and sought a speed* ier relurn for its expenditure in another direc tion. Under theno discouraging circumstances, an appeul was made to the Legislature of the State to afford State aid to your section of Georgia, us it had already done to the Nerth- west. After various modes of rendering this assistance had been rejected, in order to har monize all contiioting interests, and with the consent, as it was understood, of all the petto turners for this assistance, the aot for the incor poration of tho Atlantic and Gulf Raitraad Company was passed, which offered the peouw niary assistance of the State to the amount of ooemijlionof dollars, upon certain conditions specified in the act, thus enabling the desert and unpeopled district if which wt hive spoken to be crossed at the expense of the State. The aot contemplated a judicious union of State assit* lance and private enterprise, and enabled every portion of Beutbera auu Southwestern Georgia to choose ita own outlet to the Atlantic by put ting ita shoulder to the wheel.” The Reviewer would have the public believe that 1 made false statements in my letter to tern the people to the Soujh Western Road, he scouts my statemmU.and imperiously says— “away with them.” The' President of the Brunswick Company attended the meeting at Outhbert, where my letter was publicly read In his presence and that of the assembly, and there, himself, acknowledged, as the official record of the meeting shews, that It waa the true interest of the people to connect them* Halves with the South .Vestarn Road. The .prompt action ot the SoutU Western Company, then, and not my letter, put an end to all fbr ther effort to Induce the people of tho West to build from the Chattahuchce near Eufaula eith er to Savannah or toAlbany. That action turn ed all thoughts to the passage of the Main Trunk Road through the lower country, and I f fy^mllM |n breadth, and It wtUaveraj flitter myself,’ that ita wisdom Is seen, not . only by ray fallow citizens of Banunah, but of the whole South West—in fine, by every one ex cept those owning lauds between Doctor Town and tho Flint, from the lower line of Baker to the lower line of Dooly,— And I would fain hope that among the latter are men of liberality enough to say that It cannot be reasonably expected that a Rail Road should run through their section. It is said In the pub lic prints of Bruuswlck aud of Macon, that this section is to be flavored with a line from Macon to the Brunswick Road. For the sake of the people of the section referred to, I should be glad to see the Macon and Brunswick rOad built, but candor com pels me to say I appre hend It never will be built. Such a road could never be made to pay its owners. The Review er is evidently angry at the complete snocesa otthe movement of the B. W. Company. He says that the people, by turning to that Com pany, have, “ placed shackles on their own In dustry by which they are constrained, forever, to transport their supplies and the produots of their labor a distance of from eighty to one huudred miles further than what would Beem their nearest and most legitimate route.” This “ madness of the people," however, it is said, might be excused, if that were the only fruit of the letter. But another complaint of my amia ble critic is, that my letter, with Capitallsta abroad, “ will have the effect of crushing,com pletely the credit, and thereby, stopping the progress of the Savannah* and Gulf Rail Road.” Remarkable discovery!) which the President aud Directors of tho Savannah Company fail ed to make, but of which the astute “ up coun try cracker" has tt*e entire credit. He has kindly journeyed down tho country to let the people or Savannah know that they have among them a man, ut the head of their leading Rail Road, who knows nothing or their interests! but who has had the folly to write a letter the publication of which is “ fraught with incalcu lable miichisf'—a mat; who has informed the world “thatthere are yet 150 miles more of that terrible pine barren to be passed before the Savannah, A. aud Gulf Rail Road reaohes Albany, and that after getting thero, there is dread that there is nothing beyond Albany that will ever pay the expenses of the road.”— I opposed and deprecated the building of the road of 150 miles from the Alatnmaha to Alba ny. and now, as I havo shown above, there Is no fear that it will be built. Happily, there is no subscription from any quarter towards it— Such a Hue, If attempted, might, indeed, have crushed the credit, destroyed the life of the Sa vanna A GuirCompany, Thanks to the Legis lature, Savannah has only seventy miles of Rail Road to build. The Savannah A Gulf Co. will very soon Bbow their road finished, and leading into the Main Trunk. The address to whioh reference has been made declares that the Company has funds to build it. The aid of Capitalists from abroad, who never yet, by the way, advanced any money to build our Rail Roads, is not wanting. The Savanuah Com pany has no need to borrow money to complete their work. If Capitalists desire an investment in Georgia, they can now subscribe to the Main Trunk, in company with the State of Georgia—herself a subscriber for half a mil lion, with Statute promise of a million. May I not ask if it is not rediculeus to speak of my orushing the credit and stopping the progress of tho Savannah and Gulf Rail Road? But, according to the Reviewer, I have sin ned yet more—I have reppreaented one-third part of our great State to be a terrible barrier to all future Rail Road enterprises, and brand ed lt as a sandy, unproductive barren—I have served to discourage settlement, and to check emigration of Planters from the States North or us—I have undervalued the property and resources of a large part of our citizens—'" and the lost but not the least mischief resulting from the publication of this letter will be that the oredit of the olty will be sapped and shak en." The leading object of my Reviewer is transparent. He seeks and fancies he has the power to bring me into discredit with the in habitants of the region,by others befroe Aim,and ty him, called the Dsstrt, and with the people of this city. Hobos undertaken to shew, not simply that my calculations were eroneous, and my judgment wrong, but “ to shew" that the region of which I spoke as scanty in ita pro duction, “ it the most valuable agricultural re gion in our State." This bold assertion may, possioly, startle those who have always, hither to, without the least doubt, looked upon the country refered to as by far the least produc tive^ Georgia. It does not surprise me, for it is but the common talk of Land speculators horde of whom invaded Georgia as early os 1794, before the Indian title was extinguish ed, made surreys, ostensibly, in the county of Camden, whose western boundary they cen- ■tiued to extend to the South Sea, and “sliln« gled over” with grants miles upon miles of the land embraced in this region, west of the Ala- tamaha, lands since lottaried by the State -re- jectedor neglected by the “fortunate draw- rod thon—by thousands of acres, grant ed by (be State to the first‘applicant at from ten cents down to a cent an acre. There is now a Timber Company in London, claiming nnder such grants over a million of these acres -embracing tho whole of one county, and parts of other counties within the area. The race of speculators is not extinct. It is true that the speculators of the present day, unlike those of the olden time, whose assignees have lately appeared, have valid grauta and good title, but when was a Land Speculator ever known to undervalue hta property ; when did k he ever fail to “flare up”if any one should in bis opinion underrate it? Indeed, I must acknowledge it U not in human nature for any man to under rate his possessions. What did my letter say of the region of Country under consideration ? I repeat it for easy reference: «ir you will cast your eye on the map of Georgia, at the place where the Slit parrallel ot North latitude crosses the Flint, river, in De- cater county,and thence ran It Easton that parallel to the sources of the river Suwannee, lu the county of Clinch, then Southwardly to the Southern boundary of the State, and along that boundary to a point on the St. Mary’s riv er, distant twenty-five miles trom the town of St Mary’s, thence in a direct line to a paint on the Savannah river twenty miles above Savan nah, thence op Savanuah river to the lower part of Burke county,thence Westward to Flint river in Dooly county, and thence on the East ern margin of the Flint to the place or begin ning, the eye will embrace an area of land e- 3 uoi to one-third part of the whole area of ieorgia. If you will calculate the slave as well as the white population, and the produc tion of Cotton, wltnin the area so embraced, you will see that the slave population is not a twenty third part of the whole—that the white population Is not a tenth part or the whole— of the population of the State, and that the cottou is not one aixtaenth of the whole pro duct or Georgia. The region referred to la that great pine belt which intervene! between the sea coast and the mixed oak and hickory lands of the interior, and Western and South western border of the State. It is a region, which, by reason of the sparseness of 1U pop ulation. the scantiness of its production, the / _ .— . I.H Dh HmHM. p«y miles m ore.atn, »na it will arenge t* hundred mile. In l.ngtb (hint Gut to We*|," In mil the litter then Is, not one unltlnd word •f tho people who lire In the region. I havo not nod never will make any reflection upon or,at .U,dl.parege that people. They art aa good mon ee any or my Tallow oltlaene of tho tea aliore, or of the Oak and Hlokory Land., or of the Honntalna, with aa much liberty and patrlotbm. But that the tanda on whioh they lire are, comparatively, very poor and un productive, la a fact which, for purpoao. en tirely , legitimate aud patrlotto, I have main tained and do malutaln, without any (ear of for feiting their good opinion. The attempt of this ‘•Country Cracker" to prejudice them agalnet me la coutamptlblo. One would think It a dan- geroue thing, Judging hy my reviewer'e aland- ard.to uttera word whioh would convey tho idea that any part of thle great State waa a pine barren belt, thin In population and aeanty In porductlon. For my patt, I feel, aa a native oitiaen, whore hopes began and contlnue here, that the more oredit and 1 honor are due to tbu people of Georgia for bringing up the State ao rapidly to her prevent eminent petition, deepite the great extent and backward growth of the pine region. Why should a freeman fear to give hie opinion, on proper ooeaalon, upon tho wealth or the poverty, the preduotlveneaeor the aterillty, of any part of the State! bit treasonable to say that the Okafanokee Swamp, which covers helf of one of tho largest counties la thle region, eennot l>e Inhabited by man! b It a .lender to say that thore are portions of the country where the sand to bo bare of vega, tatioa that you might "track a turkey" In it? b it a reflection upon my friend. in Liberty and McIntosh to Hay that, for the greater part, the lands bom Walthourvlllo or Jonesvllle to the Alotamehe are poor, I9W, pine barrens, filled with cypress knees—unlit, for oultioatlon—pro voking to the pittance of the weary lawyer, or even the teak preacher, on hie circuit ? Am I to be sneered it by this rain oritlo when I tell him that, in all that regioa deacrlbed In my totter, there U not a printing press, or & brick oourthouw or Jell, or e village of three hun dred luh.bUanU ? that In ell thet part of tho region wort of the Altemehn there la aot one well-endowed aeademyt What aretheproolh of wealth or vatoo? b it not sheer nonaenae te attack me because I bare seen At, when my nvoeation required, to give my opinion upon thefltneasof any part of'the State for the uon« atruotion of a railroad, or for any ether pur pose ? And to it not the " meieat gammon" to talk of my letter to the people of Outhbert aa incalculably mlechievoua—aa a thing to kll 1 the Oulf Bond, or to ch.ck emigration, or to “aap and shake” tho credit of Savannah, or to heap taxea upon the people, n> thle reviewer, evidently more from personal hostility to me than from any expectation of doing good, then- daringly proclaim* 7 The gentleman does not like me. I have told the truth, and It b not palatable to him. It may, for aught I know, interfere with hta proipeeta He has lnadrer tently attributed to me greater power and Influ once than I possess. ft is neeessary to remark, that although my reviewer says that any child can trace the lines whioh I have given to the region whom value to in controversy, hi has not marked them ae I marked them on my map when I wrote my letter, or aaf Intend.-. On the east my description ran up to the lower pari of Burke county. It would here been more die. Unct if I had said the lower fine of Burke. Tho reviewer hae uo Justilcatton for taking in aa he does part or Burke cuuuty. Hy line rune from Milltn, which I call the tower part of Burke county,westward a little South at Peris, in Emanuel, about live miles south of Dublin, In Laurens, end shout ten miles South of Haw- kinsvllle, to the Flint river In Dooly, opposite to the lower purl of Sumter. Again—the re viewer has no excuse for carrying the line na he dees to Travelers’ Best, In the extreme north ern part ol Dooly, so aa to take In part of Houston county. I admit that it would huvu been better III hud designated the point on Flint river in Dooly county; still, I repeat that he had no excuse for taking In the whole of Dooly oounty or Laurens county, Polaakl conn, ty and Emanuel oounty. Even, however, with the addition of the stoves In these counties en tire, he could not bnve made the atove popula tion exeeed 97,000—when he made it 34,000. The reviewer hae omitted Effingham county, three-fourths of which are within my lines. I had the map ot Gtoorgte and the census of population of 18(0 before me when I wrote my totter; I had net the census ot ihl production ot 1850 before me. I sought general accuracy, but did not pretend ta the minuteneaaof n statis tician. The region described by me, and ln> tended by me, embraces the counties end parte of counties mentioned in the table annexed to this totter. A pert of formerly Camden (now Charlton) is within my area—but this to not a matter of mueh importance. Of this region, I said the white popntatlon to not a tenth of the whole white population of the State. Thiele not disputed by the reviewer, end to indisputa ble. I said the slave population to not n twenty- third part of the whole in the Btate,and that the product in cotton to not n sixteenth of the whole produet. 1 have carefully reviewed the subject, and And the slave population to bo not a twenty-second part, and tho product In cot ton to be not a twentieth part of the whole product of the State 0 (Georgia. The annexed table will show my calculation and computa tion. There may be error (but no material er ror) in It. If there be error, let it be exposed; but, for decency's sake, I trust that this docm> meut will net also ha said to aavor of "rotten- between the wealthier portions of our territory and the marts of commerce on the ocean, ita extent is from eighty to one hundred and It will be recollected that the reviewer makes the slave population within my region in 1850 over 34,000. I make it less than 20,000. He makes tbs product in Cotton in 185$, over 40,100. I make it less than 10- 000. He does not say what he considers the Slave population in 1866—nor does be Hy what he considers the rate of inorease in Slave population sinoe 1850. He uyi that he has no doubt the Cottou product has doubled since 1850, which Is just the same as saying that the Cotton product of 1856 is (within my area) over 80,000 Hales!! I desire here to repeat the very words of the Reviewer m to tho value of the region in controversy. He says—“ I will shew that this terrible pine barren beltis the most valuable agricultural portion of our Stats and that the Savannah, Albany £* Gulf Mail Road. will be a more important avenue to the trade of Savannah than the Central Rail Road." The Reviewer has attempted to prove this, by drawing a line from West Point to the River Savannah on the dividing line between Bleb- mond and Colombia Counties, calling all the portion of Georgia Northward of ..that Una aa ana equal to my area below, that Is, about one- third of the State, and then comparing tha two areas or thirds—hit area and myarea—he gives tha population and cotton product In 1860 of his Oak and Hickory area, thus—White popu lation 106,000. Slave* 153,000. Cotton, 194- 000 Balsa, and says—'’ Here then the Record shows that there Is a greater number of Na- groes in proportion to the white population— that there is more Cotton made to the band and that the yield of Cotton to the acre to greater in the desert than in the Oak and lilok bry region.’! The utter, falaoy of this concln- slon of the Reviewer is shown in an Instant;— He embraced iu his area the following counties which are not Cotton producting Counties, via: Raban, Union aud Gilmer whioh according to he last census did not produce 'one Bale of lotion, and Dade, Habersham, Lumpkin, Mur ry, Walker, Hall, Cherokee and Gordon, whioh together, produced only 1244 bales of Cotton but had 9820 Slaves. The white population in those eleven ouuuties was about 84,100 in 1850. Improved lands in them 322,000 acres. The Reviewer says to this white population, which to double that of the piue belt. tot. that the number of Nogroes is greater in proportion to the wholo, in the piue bolt than in their region. 2d .that there is more Cotton mude to tho hand in the piue belt than in their regiou^nd 3d,that tho yield oi Cotton to tho acre is greater in “the desert” than in their Oak and Hickory lands. That white population will reply—tot, If the pine belt does hold more Negroes iu proportion, that is no evidence of the greater value of tho pine land, for ours is a regiou better adapted to white than to Slavs labor. 2d, That ours do** o°t pretend to be a tiotton growing coun try ; ita altitude it too great for raising that staple, and 3d, That as our country 'does, not grow Cotton, it is out of the question to com pare it, In Cotton product, with a region which pioduces nothing but Cottofl Jor market, All these remarks are applicable to a full fourth of the Reviewer’s Oak and Hickory area. But is knot in the power of this Urge mountain pop ulation to retort on this Reviewer and say Boast not too much of the value of your pine belt—you do not raise enough Cotton to the Ne gro to brag. In eight of your whole Counties iu the pine area, contiguous, you k bavo 6382 Negroes aud raise only 2535 bales of Cotton in two of these eight count.es you have 810 Negroes and raiso but 160 Bales of Cots ton. Is it not In my power to throw iuto the Reviewer’s toeth his vain aud uncivil—“atony with" such statements ? In further Illustration of tile greater value of the region indicated by me, the Reviewer, in tabular statement, cotnpares Putman. Bald win, Jasper and Jones, with Dooly, Baker, Thomas and Lowndes. This comparison is worse than falUcious, for the reason that three fifths of Dooly county, two-thirds of Baker county, two-thirds of Thomas county and three fifths of Loundea county are not within my de fined area. I say, “ away with" such state ments—they are grossly unfair. Compare Putnam, Baldwin, Jasper and Jones with the fear whole counties in my area, which produce most Cotton, Vis; Sorivon, Bullock, Telfair aud Ware, and see to what it will lead. Such are all the proofs, adduced by the re viewer to show that “ the Desert ” is the most valuable agricultural portion of the State. In Addition to what I have said, I will, in brief space shew, that the region or third defin ed by me is far below either of the other two- thirds of the State. Take the Tax Digest of 1852: Of all Georgia the lowest county, in value of lands, was Wayne (over 60 years acouuty)—the next lowest (ex- cept Rabun) Appling, next Montgomery, next Ware,next Irwin, next Clinch,next Effingham, next Tattnall. Again, take the Tax actually assessed in 1855. Thirteen counties paid nn der one thousand dollars of Tax, vis; 'Ware, $892,39. 9 GUmer, 823,00 Wayne, 898,74. 10 Fannin, 742,00 Worth, 783,06. 11 Dade, 700,19 4 Irwin, 839,34. 12 Pickens, 742,55 5 Clinch, 999,17. 13 Rabun, 499,34 6 Charlton, 580,75 7 Montgomery, 985,16 8 Telfair, 776,34 and Appling which pays $1022,89 is tbs next lowest in order. not.think it will raise Sugar and Molasses for transportation over the Rail Roads, though ths quantity bo doubled every six years during the present, generation. I beg the “tip country cracker" to bear iumlud a fact (qf which he Meftri not to be uware) that If just Sugar and Molasses enough be raised for the supply of Ita people, tjie.Ruilroada will derive no profits for carrying those articles to them. The Reviewer lost sight,entirely,of hto prom ise to shew that the Savannah, Albany A Gulf Road will be a more valuable avenue to Sa vanuah than the Central Road. I will consider thia merely “ a filing M at the Central Road and relieve him from his promise by the simple, but sincere declaration, that if it shall so prove, it will give me more heartfelt gratification than lie could possibly experience from being the owner of all the blocks of plantations whioh may ever be established West of the Alatama- h&. There is nuotuer “ fling ” at the Central Road, namely, that it once had a sliding scale of freight at Macon and broke down the Boat ing balances ou the Ocmulgee. Before the Central Road was completed, when the River was low, Cotton paid tbreo dollars a hundred to be hauled to Savannah. It was the common cry, during the progress of the road, that If it could reduco the carriage of merchandise and produce to one dollar per hundred,'as a uniform rate from Macon it would be a blessing. The rate of Cotton is forty cents aud on merchan dise generally lower. And yet with the Review er, the Central road is a cruel monster. There is still another fling at the Central road, which carries a curious conscqueuco with it. The Reviewer speaks as if t tie Central road, by its oruel and arbitrary management, bud ruiued “ the desert,” and yet he makes the present Cotton product thereof 80,000 Bales—or double what bo says it was seven years alter the Cen tral toad waa finished; aud he has scarce a lim it tor the Sugar and Molasses which it will iroduce. Alter this, he will relieve me from the imputation of uooly sitting in the Carpet ed Bank parlor, to underrate the value ol alarge part of the State of Georgia. The inconsistencies of ..this Reviewer cannot escape uu intelligent reader. After bis first ta ble add his urguweut thereon, he uses these terms: “ to it auy wonder then that its white and Slave population, together with ita pro ducts should so greatly exceed that of the pine region which had not. a single mile of road built within its borders save sixty miles of tbo Central Rail Road.” Why, et me oBk, did that Ouk and Hickory region-get ita six huu dred miles of Rail Road, white the pine belt could only get sixty miles V Because there wus population aud pioduction enough in the Oak and Hickory region to invite and sustain the fnvannnh Market, November. IS* COTTON—797 bales changed bands this fereooon vis: H at 10*, 10atl0X,62atll, 31 at 11*, 100 at 11*, 92 at U*, 68 at It*, 297 at tt*, 64 at If» and 12 bales Jethro at 12*0. COLUMBUS, Nov. 12—Cotton—Sales yesterday Toot up 839 bales, at prices ranging from 10* to It *c. Receipts of the day 672 bales. Port of Savannah November 13 Consignees. Per brig Excel, from New York—J U SolkirE, M Uobuu. S M ajhIBumu, Brlabain, Kelly A Co, Pat ten. Huttou & Co, Vongo It Frierson, CUgborn k Cunolnglmm, Cooper k tiiililaud, Pardons ft Go, J ( W Andorsou. Wayne & Son, Rue*. Devil k Long. W H txutou, Orune, Wells & Co, D D Copp, A ton- aud, Q Butler, Order, Dana A Washburn, J P Col Uns, J O Falllgant, tt Prtudergaei, HR Washburn, Ubeover, films A Co, RD Walker, Clark A Cooley, H 8 Bogurdub, Waver 4 Constantine, Ogden, Starr A Co, 1/Mjlcelt A Baolliuxs, T R Mills, McKee A Ben nett. Palmer & bon, tt A Dillon. Rabun A Staiib, W O Price, W Warner, Fla Boat, Moose A Co, J Sulll- vau, W N Uuborsbam, Etheridge A Son, A Tyler, Boll it Pre tiss, Eiubteln A Eckmau, King A bon, Fried A bro, Chttffor A Go, J R Biley, T Henderson, Young A Wyatt, McMahon A Doyle, Hudson, Flem- lug A Co, Win Brailey, D B Nichols A Co, J W An derson, 0 Louis A Co. Per brig Augusta, from New York—J U Selkirk, Brigham, Kelly A Co, M A Cohen, Ciaghorn A Ctm. 1 nlngbum, J W Lathrop A Co, Parsotib A Co: Dana' A Washburn, a U LuffLteau, J Stoddard, Yongefr Frlorson, CaL Lamar, McKee A Bennett. tVaybe A Hon, J V Barbee, J Lama, Patten, Hutton A Co, J f Jones, O’Byrne A Dacy, Hardwick A Cooke, A Hosier. Lovell A Lattlmoro, J Nichomoo, R Haber sham A Son, Einstein A Lehman, W Henry, WH w . , - • — G >loa, J A Atib Viriina. J Ryan, Hunter A Gam- llouds, whilst in tlio pine belt, there was not moll, j 8 Norris, KJ'ruebolut, nlalhrop si Co, T population or production, or prospect or hope U Miller a Co, Mug It Waring, Kennedy & Beach, La.. —*i.- - - Clark A Cooley, May A Co. PerJjrig Sam’i UtiSj from Boston—BRR agt, S Here, then, we see ataglauce eight counties a great part of my area, the eight lowest in Georgia (except Rabun) In valuo of lands sworn by their owuers in 1852. We seo also how nine of those counties stood in 1855. If this true plan of ascertaining values be carried out by the Reviewer he will be ashamed that he undertook “ to shew that this terriblo pins bare ren is the most valuable agricultural portion of Georgia.” What better, what more conclusive proof that the Desert is.far surpassed in value by either of the other thirds ? Before the Re viewer got through with his task, he quaked a little about this bold assertion, aud qualified it thus“ The country South and West of the Alatamaha and Ocmulgee River, now denounc* ed by Mr. Cuyler as sandy, unproductive pine barren, will bt found, as soon as tit's develop ed by the Rail Roads now in progress to be the most valuable agricultural portion of our state.' “ In a few years, this whole region will be one continuous block of plantations." Then, this part of the region, Is, by the Reviewer himself, confessed uot to be, yet, the most valuable ag ricultural portion of Georgia. WillScreveni Effingham, Bulloch, Emanuel, Telfair, Tattnall, and the upper portion of Bryan,Liberty and Mo* Intosh ever become “ one continuous block of plantations?” I am sure I might have increas ed myarea five miles in its whole Southern bor- der to the Florida line and its Eastern border and yet held my position. H to then an absurdity to say that tha area whioli I marked is not the least valuable of the three divisions of the State ; it is a contradic tion of authentic recorded figures to say so, it is a deuial of the sworn values of the digest to say so. That there are good farms and good formers, within the region,I admit. That in many parts, especially westward of the Al- tamaha, it to capable of supporting iu inde pendence, a much larger population than now rests upon it, I likewise freely admit. But,af- ter all, I must say it ton region, at this day, just such as I described it in my Outhbert let ter. It is uninviting, for the greater part, to Rail Road enterprise. What I thought of the Southern part of the State, outside of but adjoin ing my area, will be found in the same Cuth- bert letter an extract from which I now quote “When, in 1835, the people of Georgia began te turn their attention to Railroad improve ments, a gentleman of Glynn,talented,wealthy, enterprising and hopeful, procured a charter to tralld L the Brunswick and Florida Road. He saw stretching Northwestward, that long bar ren region denying access to the heart of Geor- I;ia. He saw, too, the people of Savannah de- ermined to reach that heart^nd to revive their drooping spirit from the fountain. Hto intelli- K ent mind turned to the Southwest, and there e saw on -the Southern border of the great belt, a strip of laud rich in quality, healthful in climate, ihviting a thrifty, industrious popu lation, streching to our Western boundary, and he Baw beyond the great harbor of the Gulf of Mexico, Pensacola. He, wisely, I say it not withstanding failure, wisely sought to connect theGulf with tbs Atlantic at Brunswick.” The region in dispute between the Reviewer and myself will be vastly, improved by the Sa vannah and Gulf road, reaching to a point 20 miles beyond the Alahamaha and by the Main Trunk road, beginning the end of those 20 miles and destined, as 1 think, to go on,, after receiving the embrace of the Brunswick road and the Savannah road, by Magnolia, In Clinch* by TroupvUle, Thomasvllle and Bainbridge to the Western bank of the Cbatahooche River.— The line will pase^ao near “the dssert" aa to bring into activity that latent lime or other fer- till*tug quality of which the Reviewer speaks, for fifty miles, at least, in width, from the Sa» tilla to the Flint. "The Desert”will not, I fear, “ blossom as the rose" for many years; I do Arrived. .Ship Beu Bolt, AUon, Trieste, lu ballast, to C A L Lamar. Brig Excel, Tillman, Now York, via Philadel phia, to Dana A Washburn. Brig .\ugu6ta* Stone, New York, to Done k Wash burn. Brig Orrifion Adams, York, Philadelphia, to Hun ter AGatmneli. Brig Arcadian, Dame, Providence, via New York, to W B Giles A Go. Brig Abby Ellen, Gilchrist, Boston, via Newport, to Brigham, Kelly A Go. Schr Fannie, Beaston, Philadelphia, (67 houn)to A ureiuer. Schr Plandome, Brown, New York, with cool, to Padilferd, Fay A Co. Screven's 2 flats, from plantation, with 2060 bush rough rice, to W Wood bridge. Memoranda. VOKBION POETS. Havana, Nov 7—Old, brig Napoleon, HutchiU, Sa vannah. enough to pay tho exptnees of roads, to not this tho true reason ? The very existence of Rail Roads in any portion of the State just iroves tho greater value of that portion. This s exactly true so far as roads havo been built in Georgia. But if tho people shall disregard the wise adinouitiou of tuo present Governor of tho State,and graut Charters to Rail Roads as matter of course, and spend money to build Air Line Roads aud rival roads, the symmetry and value of the Railroad Bystem or Georgia will be destroyed, aud we shall, as a people, present the sad spectacle shown in somo of the North ern and Eastern portions of the Uuited States, and in England—of reads which do not pay the men who Guile them. Tho Reviewer to among those who apeak flippantly of opposition air iue roads as the most “ legitimate "—though there be very good and sufficient Hues actually in progress, He surely, caunot he a stockhol der in any of the existing lines in Georgia. I advise him to go into the Main Trunk. The great length of his letter admonishes me that I may exhaust the patience of the reader. I ask a moment’s further indulgence, whilst 1 give brief auswer to those' portions of the re viewer’s letter which seem to impute to me the lack of understanding. He says I am wrong in attributing the prosperity of Savan nah to the building of the Central Roud. What would be the condition of things if this rond were taken up and blotted out—suppose it had never been built? Would not the grass be growing literally in our streets, and our city'bs a mark of derision to all tho inhabitants of Georgia ? 1 leave all men of common sense to answer. The reviewer says I seem not to be aware of the extent of the great pine belt which in the Southern States stretches from the hill country towards the sea ; or of the lact that the Wil mington, tho Manchester, the South Carolina and the Central Roads are in that region. Neither of these roads begins to pay profit from anything derived from the pine belt; the con nections beyond the pine belt, in every case where there is remuneration to the BtocKbold* ere, are the causes of that remuneration. But to not that greut pine belt in North Carolina, South Curoliun and Georgia the poorest and least productive part of the country ? Is it not just the region which is most backward in im- rovement? Tim mountain men of other itates have generally migrated to tho mountain region of Georgia, tho men of tbo hilly country to the hilly country, aud tho men of tbo pine oonntry have followed the pine country. The samo architecture, or want of architecture, which prevails lu the pine barreua of North Carolina, you will find throughout the samo pino belt in Georgia aud Florida. The same means of locomotion to market towns—pre cisely tbo same carts, driven in tho same man ner—you may see daily In the markets in Wil mington, in Savannah, in Darien, in St. Mury’s, and in Florida; andno where else than in, and iu tho vicinity of, the pine belt. Why to there this lack ot improvement, which every man must daily see iu the pine land in Georgia? it is because the land is the least valuable agricul tural portion of the State. My purpose is, I trust, accomplished, and I take a final leave of the reviewer. One great railroad, recommended by Governor Johnson, and provided tor by tho wisdom and liberality of the lost, Legislature, will pass through the mi Ullg OUUl'l UM5, IIUUI DUUIUU—p M Laffltenu, Hand, Wilcox A Oo, Ciaghorn k Can- nlngbam, Carloton A Parsons; IW HoireU. Per brig O Adams, from Philadelphia—Blyler k Kline, CUB,J If Selkirk, M A Cohen, Ciaghorn k Cunningham, J V Coimerat,.AH Ohumpion. UCo hen, Hunter A GammeU, S U Lafflteau. A N Hiller, A Minis, I W Morrell, Ogden, Htarr A Co, Parsons A Co, J Ryan, J G Watts, J F Waring, Wryne A Ben. Webster A Palmes, N B A II Weed, Youge A Fri erson. Per brig Arcadian, from Providence—Brigham, Kelly A Co, UACobon, SH Lafflteau, Oarleton k Parsons. Per echr Fannie, from Philadelphia—J H Selkirk, M A Cohen; A Bonaud, Brigham, Kelly A Oo, Bab- erebamASen, HuulerA GammeU, JLamn BM Lafflteau, Patten, Hutton A Co, Parsons A Go, TT Willis, Williams G Ratcliff), N Wslfe, Wayne A Boa, N B A H Wood, Yonge A Frierson. valuable portion of that great nine belt, bat south of the area which I have defined, and it will suffice for the whole area. The railroad at Albany and the railroad at Bainbridge will share the business of the valuable part of the conntry ; existing interests will be supported, and no injurious rivalry will ensue, but, instead, a healthy, active competition. We want no road to Albany to get to Montgomery, Ala., for wo have a railroad already to Montgomery, near three-fourtbs of which have been built by Georgia capital and enterprise. Aud we can “bide our time" until other capital andenter- K shall build roads from Montgomery to the ssippl and to the Pacific. Very respectfully, your ob’t eerv’t, R. R. Cutleb. (Table rctsrrhp to is pbbckdixo letteb,) Counths. 1860. Staves Apppllng .... Wayne Ware........ rwin Telfair Tattnall icreven Bulloch Montgomery.. 404 40(i 288 450 980 831 2078 1400 618 Effingham..* EmanuoL.2-6 Pulaski....13 Lauro.iB.. .1-3 Decatur ..1-141 Dooly 2-5 CUuoh....el-8 Bryan .... * Liberty., .3-6 Mclnteab. ,1-t Thomas... 1*3 Lowndes...2-6 Baker ....!•$ 9055 1886 284 035 991 200 1110 43 £61 1850. R.Cot, 6371 756 224 1838 1*294 27* 473 1277 728 Slaves & Coition Computed by area. 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